Thursday, March 19

Hello Grade 6 Students and Families,

We continue to think of you during this time and hope you are well during a change of routine where there are undoubtedly many questions and wonderings.

As we move into what is our regularly scheduled Spring Break, we encourage you to keep a regular routine of sleeping, eating and regular exercise. Remember to have time for fun in there as well.

Please refer to the email that was sent out by CBE with suggestions of activities.  The activities can also be found at https://cbe.ab.ca/programs/curriculum/learning-at-home/Pages/default.aspx

Learning at Home - Learning at Home - CBE Children are naturally curious learners and there are opportunities at home to engage their learning. This webpage offers a variety of educational ideas to support literacy, numeracy and wellness at home. cbe.ab.ca

We will be in touch with you again after Spring Break and be discussing learning as we navigate through this unprecedented time.

Take Care,

Ms. Palamar

Ms. Steeves

Mrs. Wagenblast

Also, our tomatoes continue to grow!  Thanks to Miss Mila who will be caring for them next week during Spring Break.

Monday, March 16

Hello Grade Six Students and Families of Bridlewood School,

Please know that we care for you and are thinking of you during this historic time with school being cancelled. We need to think about community and how we can take care of each other.

Throughout grade 6, we have learned the importance of using our voices in positive ways to make a difference.  Last week at Outdoor School, you were all an amazing support for each other and showed that kindness is powerful and can go a long way.  Please remember at this time to take care of each other, love one another, have hope, keep positive, show kindness, be compassionate, spend time with your family, have peace, remember to laugh, have conversations, read, get outside and be active. 

Though many families and friends may be unable to physically get together, let’s try to think of ways that we can continue to spread kindness and cheer at this difficult time.  For example, you could draw and colour some pictures of something that brings happiness to you and your family to post in your front window. We hope this kindness and joy will spread and give strength when it is most needed.

As we are unsure at this time what is next, please stay tuned for updates that will be sent as more information becomes available.

Ms. Steeves

Ms. Palamar

Mrs. Wagenblast

Thursday, March 5

A good part of our day today was spent practicing for our show with Evergreen Theatre tomorrow.  We had a dress rehearsal for the school this afternoon.  WE are bringing home our scripts to practice tonight.  We look forward to sharing with you tomorrow starting at 10:15.

Reminders:

• Practice your lines tonight!
• You are invited to our Evergreen Theatre performance tomorrow from 10:15-11:15.  More information 
• Outdoor School is on Monday!  Please remember that clocks move ahead one hour this weekend for Daylight Savings Time.
• Luggage can be dropped off in the gathering area beginning at 7:30 on Monday, March 9.
• All medication (including Advil and Tylenol) needs to be brought to the school clearly labelled in a Ziploc bag with your child’s name and dosing information on the morning of our departure.  All medication will be given to Ms. Steeves, with the exception of Epipens and puffers) so that it can be appropriately stored and secured. 
• Yearbook order deadline extended to the end of March. 
• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order.

Wednesday, March 4

We had time to look at the feedback from Ms. Steeves on our National Forest Week articles.  Then, we had the opportunity to rewrite our articles using the feedback we received as well as where we had marked ourselves on the rubric.  

We had a practice with Aaron.  Our script is complete and we did a run through on the stage in the gym. We are looking forward to sharing with you on Friday at 10:15.

We each wrote a personal goal that we will work on at Outdoor School.  

We worked on our name tags for ODS school to finish the day.

Reminders:

• You are invited to our Evergreen Theatre performance this Friday from 10:15-11:15.  More information 
• Yearbook order deadline extended to the end of March. 
• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order.

Tuesday, March 3

Our day started in small groups using the PAT functional writing rubric.  Each group was given four articles written by different students using the information we used yesterday to write our articles.  Students used the rubrics to assign a mark in the areas of Content and Content Management.  We then looked to see how close our marks were to the actual marks that had been given to the students.  We were pretty close!  Later, students marked their own articles using the rubric.  

We had our second session with Evergreen Theatre.  Today we put the majority of our show together. We decided what each of the small groups will be sharing and decided basically what their lines will be.  Aaron will put this all together tonight.

In Science, we began to learn about constellations.

We also did a little more reading about the Iroquois.

Would you like to order a YEARBOOK, the order deadline has now been extended to March 31^st.  You can order and pay online with your MYCBE/PowerSchool account, you will find the fee under. School Based Optional Fees.  Click on the yearbook icon and you will asked to add to your cart,  his will automatically add the $25 fee to your account.  You can call the school office ask for the fee to be attached the fee to your account, please email me directly at catunney@cbe.ab.ca or call 403 777 6259 with your request.

Reminders:

• You are invited to our Evergreen Theatre performance this Friday from 10:15-11:15.  More information 
• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order.

Monday, March 2

Our residency with Evergreen Theatre started today.  We had an early music time as we had an assembly as a whole school to learn more about the week.  We had our first session with Aaron.  We did a quick warm-up game to help him get to know us and our names.  From there, we brainstormed ideas for our portion of the show.  It was great to see everyone contributing their ideas.

We reviewed the Provincial Achievement Test (PAT) functional writing rubric.  This is what will be used to mark our newspapers when we write our first PAT in May.  The other tests will be in June.  We did a practice news article using given information, just like we will have when we write in May.   

Our day finished with beginning to paint our ODS name tags.  One side contains our name, and the other side has the nature names that we have chosen.

A letter with more information about ODS is coming home today.  Please read this carefully as it contains information about luggage drop off at the school on Monday as well as information about medication. 

Reminders:

• You are invited to our Evergreen Theatre performance this Friday from 10:15-11:15.  
• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order.

Wednesday, February 26

Our tomatoes are really growing!  We planted them 5 weeks ago today.

Today was a finish up kind of day.  We are looking forward to sharing all of our literacy, math and science learning with you tomorrow night at our Learning Celebration!

We worked on some area, perimeter and volume problems prior to our assessment tomorrow.

Reminders:

• Tomorrow is our Kindness Kickoff assembly at 10:30.  Mayor Nenshi will be here with us.  Wear purple.  Parents are welcome to attend.
• Area, perimeter and volume assessment tomorrow
• Thank you to those that have made their payment for ODS.  If you have not yet done so, please visit my CBE account to make your payment as we need to forward the funds to Camp Chief Hector soon. 
• Yearbook orders accepted until the end of February.
• Grade 6 Learning Celebration this tomorrow from 5:30 - 7. This is an open house style event, so you do not need to come right at 5:30.  In order to give students time to share their learning with you, please plan to arrive no later than 6:30.  
• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order.

Tuesday, February 25

Our morning work task today was:
Would you use a series of points (discrete data) or a line graph (continuous data) to display each set of data?  Explain your choices.

A) the number of goals scored by the Calgary Flames each week during the 2018-2019 season
B) the temperature of a cup of boiling water as it cools
C) the mass of a puppy in its first year
D) the distance traveled by a cross-country skier as she completes the course

We completed the page in our creative journals on the Iroquois.

We continued with our newspapers and many students were printing today.  We are looking forward to sharing them with you at our learning celebration on Thursday.

Reminders:

• Thank you to those that have made their payment for ODS.  If you have not yet done so, please visit my CBE account to make your payment as we need to forward the funds to Camp Chief Hector soon.
• Pink Shirt Day is tomorrow!  
• Yearbook orders accepted until the end of February.
• Grade 6 Learning Celebration this Thursday, February 27 from 5:30 - 7. This is an open house style event, so you do not need to come right at 5:30.  In order to give students time to share their learning with you, please plan to arrive no later than 6:30.  
• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order.

Monday, February 24

Our day started with measuring our tomatoes with our partner and recording our measurements and adding the information to our continuous data line graphs.

The countdown is on for Outdoor School.   We went through the packing list in detail.  The packing list is below.  Students were encouraged to make sure they have the proper winter clothing for ODS.  If there is anything that students do not have or are not able to borrow, please let Ms. Steeves know soon so we can see if we can help out with this.

In math, we were making nets to create 3D representations of the buildings that are rectangular prisms for our blueprints.  

We continued with our second news article about growing plants in space and a few students have started adding their articles in a newspaper format.

Our day finished rewatching the first of the Hiawatha videos again and recording the important information visually in our creative journals.

Reminders:

• Thank you to those that have made their payment for ODS.  If you have not yet done so, please visit my CBE account to make your payment as we need to forward the funds to Camp Chief Hector soon.
• Pink Shirt Day on Wednesday!  
• Yearbook orders accepted until the end of February.
• Grade 6 Learning Celebration this Thursday, February 27 from 5:30 - 7. This is an open house style event, so you do not need to come right at 5:30.  In order to give students time to share their learning with you, please plan to arrive no later than 6:30.  
• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order.

Friday, February 21

We had time to continue on our articles and newspaper this morning.

In small groups we are building the buildings that will be in our lunar colony.  It was great to see the creativity and cooperation as students worked together today.

Parents & Guardians

“How to pay for a Yearbook online”

Because the yearbook is an optional fee, the fee does not automatically appear in your MYCBE/PowerSchool account. 

You will find the fee under the Goods/Services tab, click on the tab and you will see two optional fees

Noon Supervision Drop In

Yearbook

Click on the fee you want, hit ok, the fee will then appear in your school fees, for online payment.

If you have any issues with this, please call the office we can attach the optional fees.

Reminders:

• Thank you to those that have made their payment for ODS.  If you have not yet done so, please visit my CBE account to make your payment.
• Open House for Woodman Junior High- Late French Immersion Program tonight from 6:30 - 8pm
• Yearbook orders accepted until the end of February.
• Grade 6 Learning Celebration Thursday, February 27 from 5:30 - 7. This is an open house style event, so you do not need to come right at 5:30.  In order to give students time to share their learning with you, please plan to arrive no later than 6:30.  
• Our next special lunch date is Thursday, March 12.  As we will be at Outdoor School on that date, please log on to the Healthy Hunger website and cancel your order.

Thursday, February 20

Students received written feedback on their Tomatosphere news articles and had time to make revisions on the computer.  Students then moved to their other articles related to plants being grown in space.

We watched the news story, "NASA Spacecraft's discovery redefines planet formation theory," below from Global National news this week.

We watched and discussed the videos about the Iroquois and how the Great Law of Peace came to be and the nations worked together as one.  

We had gym outside this afternoon and also had some time to plan buildings in small groups for the lunar colony that will be on our moonscape.

Reminders:

• Thank you to those that have made their payment for ODS.  If you have not yet done so, please visit my CBE account to make your payment.
• Open House for Woodman Junior High- Late French Immersion Program tonight from 6:30 - 8pm
• Yearbook orders accepted until the end of February.
• Grade 6 Learning Celebration Thursday, February 27 from 5:30 - 7. This is an open house style event, so you do not need to come right at 5:30.  In order to give students time to share their learning with you, please plan to arrive no later than 6:30.